You are welcome. You have been a pleasure to work with. Many/most would become dissolutioned/frustrated with the amount of work I have asked you to do.

I wish you well in your studies, your willingness to work and stick to the the task at hand will serve you well in that area too.

Please edit your original post and put [Solved] in the subject line.

Fred

EDIT: At some point you may be interested in backing up your files to an external drive or whatever. I wrote some very simple scripts, and instructions on how to make them, if you would be interested. The link is below if you want to take a look at them sometime.

Make sure you cd to the directory that you want to make the symlink in. In this case you are already there by default.

Be sure to rename the .tomboy folder that you are going to replace with a symlink, before you make the symlink. Also make sure you have the correct path to the .tomboy folder you want to use in the other distro.

It's correct and it works, try again.

Fred

Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and each time expecting a different result.

Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on the menu. Liberty is an armed lamb protesting the electoral outcome. A Republic negates the need for an armed protest.

Interesting post..., I was going through Fred's posts and this one picked my curiosity. It took me around half an hour to go through most of the post.

To answer Mapleblack's question (erm, its already a month old) take a backup of current menu.lst and later merge the 2 menu.lst (not sure how easy / difficult is this to you).

I read from the posts that sharing the tomboy config file through sym link. Will there be any problems if the tomboy in 2 OS are of different version? For that matter what if I have some other apps config file that I would like to share (and their versions are different)?

Also reading through I understand, I cant create one user in first OS then I cant import that user in the other OS (Ubuntu) OR rather its not advisable... IS this correct?

Finally have a clarification, I thought the UUID will only change when the partition are moved / modified. But Fred, you have said UUID will be modified when other OS are installed... Please correct me if I am wrong.

EDIT: erm, wrong edit...! removed

Don't fix it if it ain't broken, don't break it if you can't fix it -Husse

Will there be any problems if the tomboy in 2 OS are of different version?

It depends on if the structure of the config files is materially different. In the case of TomBoy, I suspect that it would work ok since that file is basically a data store anyway. I am guessing however. I don't have two versions of TomBoy to compare data stores. I would suggest you try it and see. You shouldn't hurt anything and you can always delete the symlink and rename the original config file back as it was.

I cant create one user in first OS then I cant import that user in the other OS

If you use different usernames for the installs you will have permission problems. Well... not problems, but you will have to change your permissions so all the users have access to the same data. If you use the same username, you won't have to address this issue at all.

I thought the UUID will only change when the partition are moved / modified.

This is correct, but you have to think about all the ways a partition is touched. When you install you format at least the / partition. This changes the UUID. If you have an existing install that has that partition mounted then it will be confused by the UUID change. Also, if you resize a partition or move it up against another partition, it will sometimes change not only the moved partition's UUID but also the adjacent partition you moved it up against. UUIDs are very fragile in general. Almost any action that touches the partition will cause the UUID to change. That of course causes problems with any existing installs that use UUIDs as unique identifiers.

I hope that helps clarify things for you.

Fred

Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and each time expecting a different result.

Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on the menu. Liberty is an armed lamb protesting the electoral outcome. A Republic negates the need for an armed protest.

I have 15Gb for root & have arnd 45Gb for home, where I store all my junk. I have another 20Gb free, which I use for testing other dirstros. I keep using sda10 as my home partition so that even if I remove OS, I still have the data.

I was having ideas to make separate /opt partition so that all my extra installations may go there, but since this not always true and also it complicates things for home use, I just decided use one home partition.

Thanks guys for all the suggestions on this thread.

Don't fix it if it ain't broken, don't break it if you can't fix it -Husse